Freezer Lockers for
Sampson Folk
Down in “huckleberry land,” Sampson farmers are preparing to
build a 500-box freezer locker plant just as soon as the necessary War
Production Board requirements can be met. Already, 333 of the lockers have been
rented for one year and the money placed in the bank. The enthusiasm is so
great that a local lumberman, R.A. McCullen, has agreed to underwrite the whole
proposition. Additional rooms will be used for cooling and salting meat, and
the farmers feel that the locker will aid them in their meat curing problems as
well as assuring them of a supply of fresh meat, reports Sampson Farm Agent E.J.
Morgan.
Watauga Cattle in
Demand
The sound livestock program developed by Watauga farmers is
paying dividends. Beef cattle growers in the county, not only are selling
breeding stock to advantage; but, recently, they sold 55 head of high quality
feeder animals to their neighbors of Robeson County.
This is the second consecutive year that Robeson farmers
have purchased feeder steers in Watauga and the finished product has won most
of the prizes at the Lumberton Fat Stock Show. Watauga also held its first sale
of registered Ayrshire dairy cattle this fall when 22 head sold for $126 per
animal. The livestock farmers have come to look upon their industry as a
permanent thing and only7 recently they established a cooperative feed store in
Boone to aid in the buying and distributing of such feed ingredients and farm
supplies as must be purchased.
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